The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-03-23
BRIC-A-BRAC.
The best skirt-supporter-A woman.
Makes tracks-The railroad builder.

The best skirt-supporter-Aw woman.
Makes tracks-The railroad builder.
A stirring speech-"PasS mca spoon.
Aregular topper is 4 very Irregular citizen
An unfortunate man says he has one suit
that will last him all wiGter-a lawsuit.
There arc two very loud colors wora by
schoolboys this season, rattan and ycl!cr,
and they usually 20 together
4 smart young man picked up 4 flower
in the ballroom after all the girls lad gone,
and sang, IT'S the lost rose Of some her
If conscience is what makes cowaGIS Of
us all, there ought to be 4 great many very
brave men these days.
Young ladies who are anxious 10 marry
should bear in mind that q sealed proposal
can be sent by mail for two cents.
You can't expect !. man to exert rucll nt
an influence in this world who is toe lazy
to exert himself.
'.No more personal rcilcctionS,' cyciamcd
| the edtor-in. chief. as ne threw crooked
looking-glass out Of the office window.
Adversely is sometimes hard upon a man;
but for one man who can stand prosperity
there are 4 hundred that will s!aud advcr
sity.
why do You shivcr:" was asked Il poor
little boy at The city hall. That's the
only way can keep warm, sir, was the
pathetic reply.
California is no longer the favorc,!
ground of the miner The ANIMAL vaiuc-of
the fruit product is almost equal to that Of
the mines.
When Clara was asked what she would
do if nice young gentleman should ask
her hand in marriage she naivcIy replied,
Il don't think I'd no.
A German dcrmatologist says badness is
catching. Yes. gentlemen with bald pates
complain that they catch 1t from ali quar-
tiers.
1t may be of interest to know that 4
chemist has discovered that fair qualities OF
rum and whisky can be made from sorghum
molasscss.
4 young lady recently made tie ascent
of Mont Blanc 1t is rumored that she
thought her husband was on the top with
another woman.
4 young man who left his ciarmer's
front cate in hurried manner and lit away
out in the street asserts that her father was
afflicted with palpitation OF the feet.
Mama, what is hush?" why, dear,
what makes you ask such a question:
"Causc when l asked sister what made
herdress stick out behind, she said 'Eush." :"
The Yankee seamen used 10 be the best
in the world. The crews shipped nova
DAYS are almost wholly made up Of men Of
foreign nationality, chiefly Germans and
| Swedes.
4 Wyoming man recently blew out his
brains because he had the rheumatism. Il
he thought that his rheumatism was caused
by too much brains he must have been sad
ly mistaken.
"a farmers wife wants to know if we
can recommend anything to destroy the
common grub" We guess the next
tramp that comes along could oUliSe you, il
the family can't stand your cooking.
1t will harrow up the feelings of scDti
mental people to learn that the ballad
Comm Tbro the Rye does not refer to .;
field of grain, but to little stream in Scot
land. There are others who use it to refer
| W Il lLIAIuIS VI Si't!H 'ih'b "'t'Si.
An inquirer asked what he should 90
with horse that was troubled with period
| ical dizziness, and tie editor answered in
these words: ''Our advice would dc 70
take the horse some day when he IS not
dizzy and sell him to stranger.
What comes after T." asked Il teacher
of small boy who was learning the aipA2-
bet. You do, sir, to see Sister Josie.
There was an audible litter among the more
advanced pupils, which of course was
quickly suppressed.
There is a single sentence in the Hng
lish foreign enlistment act which contains
six hundred words. \ longer sentence
was that of a New York judge the other
day. In contains twenty years.
A southern Dakota man recently prom
isei his dying wife that lie would meet her
in heaven. When the fact became knowa
that the man was an editor, the joke was
regarded as too good to keep.
The colored folks at Washington have re
solved that the Frecdman's Bank swind!c
was "the most sinful swindlc that ever
stained earth or shocked high heaven.
This lets the trade dollar out a little.
well, swow" declared Farmer Jones:
"thesc literary chaps have the durndest
ideas. Talkin' about the Shadder Of the
gravel Now who ever heard of hole in
the ground maxim a >hadder?